Why Do You Have to Eat All of Your Points on Weight Watchers?
Monday, September 27th, 2010 at
6:04 pm
I’m on Weight Watchers. They told me that it’s vitally important that I eat all of my allotted points each day. They said that if I don’t eat all of my points, it would be just like eating too many points. Why is that? At the end of the day, I usually have to force myself to eat a few more points than I really want. It doesn’t make any sense to me how eating less would make you gain.
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It has to do with starvation mode. It sounds strange, but in the long term you actually gain weight if you don’t eat enough. This is how:
Initially you lose weight because of a larger calorie deficit. However, your body thinks it’s starving, so the next time you eat something it immediately gets stored as fat. That’s why you’re always supposed to eat 1200+ calories a day.
I wonder if it has something to do with money.
Your metabolism is a weird thing and can work against you if you do not follow certain guidelines when ‘dieting’. One of those rules is that less is not always better. Your body requires a certain amount of fuel everyday just to exist. When your body fears that there will be long periods of no fuel (starvation), it will start to use less fuel to do it’s daily functions and store the rest of the fuel for later use (fat). So even though you are eating less your body is creating more fat than usual.
You do not have to eat every point every day, but you should be as close to possible, and be sure to make healthy selections for those few extras that you squeeze in each day to use those extra points.